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white paper: the ups and downs of secTOR rotation

One of the biggest
challenges for investors over the years has been a lack of discipline
and patience. In fact, emotional selling during periods of
under-performance can really hurt long term returns. Our latest research
— The Ups and Downs of Sector Rotation—
provides valuable insight on how the discipline of sector rotation
strategies can yield quite significant over-performance over time.

Highlights include:

· Using
the Ken French Data Library of 48 industry groups, we studied how
sector rotation strategies have performed over long time horizons, and
the risks investors must be aware of to realize the returns.

· The study found that once the strategy’s relative performance bottomed out, the next six to 24 months were critical

· Annualized return of the top quintile was 14.1% versus 7.7% for the bottom quintile, and 9.5% for the market.